Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Gujarat - RahulG Delivers Final Blow To Modi

He came, He Saw, He Spoke …. And we all laughed. There’s never a dull
moment with Rahul Gandhi. He does
seem to be the ‘apparent’ in the Congress ‘hair’. I have never been interested
in political rallies or speeches. In all my life I have attended only one
rally sometime early in the 1990s. It had nothing to with any interest in
politics but a group of friends and I wanted to hear someone who was known as a
great orator. That was A.B. Vajpayee
and it was in a small municipal ground with just around 500 people. His chaste
Hindi, his humour, his assertive style didn’t disappoint at all. Narendra Modi is even better as an
orator but I have not been tempted to attend any of his rallies or keenly look
forward to his speeches. But over the last 2 years the only person I keenly
look forward to hear is Rahul Gandhi. He has my complete attention every time
he speaks and I get a chance to listen to him. To call it an experience is an
understatement. So it was that when he turned up in Gujarat on the last day of
campaign (before the first round of polls) on December 11 I had to listen. It’s
not just what he says but I also listen to see how the media cronies of
Congress reproduce those speeches which add to the fun. Especially when it
comes to NDTV and CNN-IBN the report is even better than
the speeches.

Firstly, unable to resist the temptation to add her two cents on the
Gujarat election Barkha Dutt rushed
to Ahmedabad with nothing to do really. By now most public areas are places where
she is likely to be booed ‘By The People’.
So she turns up at the most comforting zone in Ahmedabad – with Jagruti Pandya and Shweta Bhatt who are contesting the elections; the latter against
Narendra Modi in the Maninagar constituency of Ahmedabad. The title of her
report might make you want to think, what the Dickens! Well, given she’s a
regular Literfest participant “A tale of
two wives” quite suits her. The headline is typically from the NDTV/Barkha
Dutt spin alley: ‘Modi forced toshare limelight with these two wives’. And what does Shweta Bhatt have
to offer? A treasure trove of lies like – there’s no water in Maninagar, no
development, no this no that. Those who don’t know, she doesn’t live in that
area. She lives in an area that has never faced a water problem in many years
or any problem that might affect an Amdavadi. The only place where she gets
some ‘limelight’ is in Barkha’s head and probably on NDTV. Nowhere else!

Here’s a tweet from Barkha’s good friend Swapan Dasgupta. The atmosphere he describes at a Modi rally is
quite believable. The man has the ability to create an electric atmosphere with
his speeches. Modi can use twists and spins like any other politician but he is
not known to use outright lies. What probably does bother Barkha is not what
limelight those ladies might be having but that she has fallen from such
heights that in an important election in an important state she is millions of
miles away from the limelight. Even Rajdeep
Sardesai managed to attend a few Modi rallies, get a seat on his bus and an
interview. Barkha is just reduced to reporting from the shadows. It’s a warning
for every aspiring or practicing journalist. If you claim to be in journalism do not hold excessive hate and
contempt for a person no matter what. This is especially when that hate is
based on a huge volume of lies. While Modi’s stock has gone up in the last
decade, Barkha has been reduced to reporting also-rans like a side-show. Reduced
to interviews in hotels or reporting from shops or from complexes like the
Gujarat Vidyapith (December 11).

So what did RahulG say? Well, he improved on his comic stuff from UP.
This time he told people how Gandhiji and Motilal Nehru discussed things. You
know like that Amitabh Bachchan dialogue in “Namak Halal” where he describes
how Vijay Merchant and Vijay Hazare had a discussion before finally taking a
run. Oh yes… He also reminded us Rajivji “brought computers, mobile phones”. He
forgot to add that Gandhiji brought salt from his Dandi march. Doesn’t matter
that mobile phones came in only around 1995! Fact-check, homework? And then he touched upon his favourite topic
– Potatoes! Potatoes are sold at 3/-
a kilo and chips are sold at 10/- a pack. Oops.. in UP it was 1/- a kilo and
chips were 20/- a pack (Read: RahulGThe King of comedy). These price fluctuations don’t seem to add up. But
then nothing adds up with RG. Like his mom, he mentioned everyone in his Nehru-Gandhi
family from Motilal to Soniaji (Oh.. he forgot Priyanka and Robert Vadra
though).

On December 10 Sonia Gandhi
stated Nehruji established ONGC in
the town of Mehsana at a meeting in Siddhpur (near Mehsana). Don’t expect our
media to check but now the SM does check each and every word uttered. ONGC Mehsana wasn’t established till
November 1967 long after Nehru’s death. That’s only half the story. As an
observer on Twitter pointed out, they didn’t open ONGC in Mehsana for fun or gave
it preference over Muktasar in Punjab. The
simple fact is Mehsana has oil and nobody does anybody a favour by exploring
and drilling for oil. That Congress can make such stupid statements is now
a standard expectation. Overall the tone of both SoniaG and RahulG is one of a
family that has been generous to the people of this country and they should be
grateful for the crumbs the family doles out. Well, unfortunately people in
Gujarat have tasted a great amount of success and aren’t carried away with
these emotional stories about Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru or any Gandhi
family computer or mobile.

However, like I said earlier, it’s not just what RG says but how the
media responds to his speeches. Congress mouthpieces like NDTV in particular
and CNN-IBN which can fall over each other to please their favoured party. Immediately
after RG spoke at Jamnagar on December 11 NDTVcarried a report summarising his speech. See their first headline at
12.27 in the image. I immediately tweeted
(12.43) that it was an absolute lie and that RG never mentioned Modi even once
in his whole speech. So what happens? Caught on the wrong foot NDTV changes its
headline by 13.35 and the second one in the image is what the headline currently
is (unless they’ve changed it again). There are many others on Twitter and SM
who are now constantly keeping an eye on the spins of the media. There are
journalists everywhere, except in the MSM.

In a previous post I sought to explain how, having failed with the 2002
riots game, the media is now trying to portray Modi as a regional leader.
Rajdeep Sardesai at 9pm on December 11 therefore asks “Is RahulG V Modi a no contest in Gujarat”. Some might
miss the clever trick and spin in that tweet. Would RG Vs Modi at any other
place be any contest at all? I doubt it. Modi is a man with facts on his
fingers and a great orator. In contrast, RG is a ‘Gandhi’ and nothing more. He
neither has any talent nor skills for politics. So, the video headline from RG’s
Jamnagar speech on CNN-IBN says it all: “RahulCampaigns, Finally”. That’s like Rajdeep Sardesai and CNN-IBN heaved a
sigh of relief that RG finally showed up and delivered their money’s worth. I
guarantee you neither NDTV nor CNN-IBN is going to do any fact-check on any
statement made by RahulG or SoniaG. This is what people do; they feel the truth
and the lies in their gut. They aren’t gullible fools like Justice Katju would
like to think. The only fools are some of the Gandhi followers themselves as in
the previous post “Boozing with confidence”.

The arrogance with which the Gandhis claim they delivered everything to
this nation is alarming and equally frivolous at the same time. And our media
like faithful dogs allows this to continue without challenging them on facts.
As Madhu Kishwar notes somewhere, most of the time RahulG is not even in India
and no one even in his party knows which part of the world he is and what he
does. If RG had the same attendance in any university that he has in the
parliament he would be sacked without a second thought. The same arrogance and
stupidity gets transferred to his cronies too. They too start making Bimboesque
statements. Shweta Bhatt, the Jenny-come-lately, screams: “If I win, it will be a victory for Gujarat; if I lose, Gujarat will
lose” (See Firstpost).
Gujarat will lose? And she wants Gujaratis to vote for her? I have to say, if such morons lose it will
be a big win not only for Gujarat or India but for humanity.

Over a year ago I started using the term “Blow to Modi” as a sarcastic comment on everything positive that
happens to him when the media was happy to keep delivering blows to him for any
silly reason. To my surprise I found I have never used it as a title for any of
my posts. It’s now quite a popular term on Twitter to snub the media. With the
latest round of comedy all I can say is that Rahul Gandhi came, he saw, he
spoke and he delivered the “Final Blow
to Modi”.

27 comments
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Sorry to say but you can compare short career of BD with a girl in Brothel or a gigolo with a rich old woman. Sanjay Jha was going gaga over RG speech, i am sure he came yesterday in his pants after hearing RG speech after such a long time. Meanwhile Leftist and anti nationals in The Hindu have announced "The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy", to feed more poison and lies in Indian society. Look at the bastards who will be on its Advisory Board.

The Hindu Centre will be guided by an Advisory Board comprising eminent scholars and public intellectuals: Zoya Hasan, Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President and CEO, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; Gurcharan Das, management expert, author, and commentator on public affairs; and Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago.

reaction to such a center should be creation of another center with right minded people. money will never be bottleneck for such project. we need sincere researchers and at least few enlightened masters. there are some quality work done is past quantity is lacking. darkness will vanish at the sight of first spark.

RGs knowledge is tested by a comment in the NDTV.com's story ""the President of Brazil told me the other day HIS ideal in politics was Gandhi" The President of Brazil is a lady...so did Rahul make up this story?"

I am surprised that NDTV.com don't keep deleting the comments from their site. Almost all comments that i read (except some answers to original comments) ridiculed RG.

I agree with you 100%, the Social media is more fact checking. I don't watch news channels but i do read online and i do check facts and figures given by people on news. You are right, Modi has numbers on his fingers. i watched his Google hangout, i checked for figures he was giving and except the figure on literacy, everything matched to what I found on internet. Most of the figures I checked from government of India's websites.I am sure it will be tough for RG to even memorize so many numbers.

The Clown Prince hadn't even stepped off the stage and the twitter handle #YoRahulSoDumb was off the blocks. It was trending away like anything till late last night. RG is indeed a standing joke. What is scary is that CONgress will like to make him PM.

Excellent as always. Apart from your path-breaking stuff in India, I feel the time is ripe and necessary to start non-bootlicking, non-Macaulay slavish, desi-oriented, patriotic channels / MSM.

Where is the Indian majority, where are its businessmen, historians, intellectuals, patriots, leaders, who are not sold out to these bastards? We really need the other side to counter these liars, liars, liars, all around us in the seats of power and influence.

The prospects of Narendra Modi becoming PM might jeopardize the journalistic career of Barkha Dutt. Since 2002 she along with NDTV reporting Gujarat and Modi in blatant biased to the extent of criminality, gross impropriety and had crossed journalistic ethics on many occasion. Not to forget, NDTV was the first to bring the full screen breaking news that Modi might be arrested ( first sitting CM) if he failed to appear before SIT on a day which happened to be SUNDAY and SIT office was closed. In her own admission, she said that she got the news but never confirmed from SIT office about the veracity of the news , the basic principle usually all the media ( print & media) abide with. She had to cross the side of her arrogance and ego, when Modi relased the famous letter to the people with oblique reference to CNN-IBN/NDTV as "purveyor of untrue" on the same issue and appeared before SIT. Think the scenario that one of the media celebrity hadn't got any appointment from the sitting PM since 2002, it will hamper all her ambitions in her career of journalism.

Yesterday one should have seen Sanjay Jha on TimesNow. He was claiming victory in the sense that only 3 meetings of 15 minutes each of RG and look at the discussions on TV Channels and was extrapolating it to victory in Gujrat. Fun part was Arnab had asked him why did RG took so long to join the campaign in Gujrat.

It was so hillarious with one Nanavati rebutting each claim of RG during his speech and Sanjay Jha and Ms Yagnik bending over backwards to showcase it as great favour done by RG to people of Gujrat by addressing them.

Clown Prince (CP) is a title which sits comfortably next to RG. RG wears the CP title with pride and does everything to cross the previous boundaries of stupidity. He is focussed in his pursuit of Excellence in Stupidity....

Dear ravinar, I feel time has come to plan on how to takeon Media in 2014. The MSM will throw its full might behind the clown prince. How should BJP & Modi handle these scumbags will need a serious thinking.

My dumb Gujarati brothers and sisters couldnt understand what for RahulG brought Potatoe into the speech? Was it an example of value addition, marketing or exorbitant price rise in retail sector due to middlemen/women? Anyway we loved the fun part of RG speeches. I had been to Maninagar last week for a marriage and spent a full day, drove car, bike for helping the brother of bride. And can tell you that Maninagar has transformed in short period of time. BRTS is big welcome in A'bad. Maninagar was already developed area but Modi still could develop it by bringing BRTS, Engineering college, cleaning Kankaria and upgrading facilities there etc.

All this what you say is in public view.Issue is much larger.If aman the street sees Cong going nowhere..in totality... why is cong behaving like a set of blind caravan?Are they depending upon non existent advisers?On the MSM?125 yes old party is on crutches

Excellent Article ..!!!Have a look to this too(My inetntion is to show .. how Antonia G.(Sonia G)...speaks..http://www.firstpost.com/politics/modi-hits-out-at-sonia-gandhi-says-she-is-lying-about-gujarat-550191.html

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